Why dont we play through the pick and roll with nash/howard or gasol and then spot up metta in the corner and meeks on the wing like phoenix used too...

Meeks is more than capable of hitting the three in transition or off a spot up, metta we now he can hit it when hes spotting up, gasol has the jumper necessary for this offense, and finally Dwight is the most athletic center in the NBA why not let him play off the ball instead of having him post up and throw up left handed hooks that end up as bricks

Edited by SuPeRmAoR, April 13, 2013 - 06:40 PM.

"Dante Exum will be an NBA All Star by the 2018 NBA Season" - Supermaor23 3/10/14

We have to play lots of P&R and pound the ball inside. If they can still continue to run the Nash to Gasol to Howard sequence that will go a long way.

Tell me why we cant? im not arguing im just curious as to your opinion, dont say "because we're old and slow" because were not were older and slower than most teams yes, but not completely than we cant run a halfcourt offensive set.

and i hate the 1 in 4 out thing he does, its terrible, not only do you not have anyone boxing out inside but dwight on the kickouts, but also it makes the defense not work as hard resulting in them getting to save their energy for transition which kills us as you can see by our opponents fast break points and points of TO

"Dante Exum will be an NBA All Star by the 2018 NBA Season" - Supermaor23 3/10/14

Tell me why we cant? im not arguing im just curious as to your opinion, dont say "because we're old and slow" because were not were older and slower than most teams yes, but not completely than we cant run a halfcourt offensive set.

and i hate the 1 in 4 out thing he does, its terrible, not only do you not have anyone boxing out inside but dwight on the kickouts, but also it makes the defense not work as hard resulting in them getting to save their energy for transition which kills us as you can see by our opponents fast break points and points of TO

With this team, they are bad defensively as it is, running a faster tempo would result in teams running us to death.

Nash isn't capable of running that offense anymore either.

If this team was full of athletes, I'd say go for it. We can always attempt to do it with a lineup of Dwight, Clark, Meeks, Nash, and another guard or small forward, but it's still risky.

Seven second offense requires quick shots. This team needs to slow it down. Any athletic team would love for us to play that offense.

We don't have the legs, nor do we have the shooting accuracy. I think now with our best iso-er out, we have to exploit P&R, as WC said earlier, as much as we can, and play as big as damn possible. Hopefully the twin towers experiment can finally do some good things out there.

We only have two games left and were still trying to get into the playoffs. No time to try out anything new right now.

The Kobe P&R w/Pau ending with a Pau lob to Dwight for the dunk was something that was going to work wonders if we continued to work with it and expanding on it.

Now that Kobe is out, we need to some how try and run the same play with Nash. Nash has to shoot the ball well from here on out so defenders respect him. Once the defenders start respecting Nash then that opens up Pau and so on.

This guy...the lone superstar of our team, isn't fit for it (he doesn't spread the floor, and he needs to be in the post in a halfcourt offense).

Steve Nash

This guy can no longer run as much as he used to, especially now that he's not even able to play. Nash's last season in Phoenix (last year) was pretty bad, and he even struggled to close out games because he was so tired, having to run and penetrate so much.

So the seven-second offense would benefit these guys...

Steve Blake

Jodie Meeks

Darius Morris

Earl Clark

And that's it.

In other words, a run-and-gun offense would eliminate our only chance of beating the big, strong teams in the NBA (ex. Spurs, Grizzlies), and it wouldn't be enough to keep up with the fastest teams in the league, no matter how quick we run (and ironically, some of the fastest teams in the NBA are in the West...the Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors, and Thunder).

We are better off running this offense through Dwight and Gasol, at this point, and hoping Nash can spot up and knock down 40+ percent from three, and 50% or better from mid-range.

This guy...the lone superstar of our team, isn't fit for it (he doesn't spread the floor, and he needs to be in the post in a halfcourt offense).

Steve Nash

This guy can no longer run as much as he used to, especially now that he's not even able to play. Nash's last season in Phoenix (last year) was pretty bad, and he even struggled to close out games because he was so tired, having to run and penetrate so much.

So the seven-second offense would benefit these guys...

Steve BlakeJodie MeeksDarius MorrisEarl Clark

And that's it.

In other words, a run-and-gun offense would eliminate our only chance of beating the big, strong teams in the NBA (ex. Spurs, Grizzlies), and it wouldn't be enough to keep up with the fastest teams in the league, no matter how quick we run (and ironically, some of the fastest teams in the NBA are in the West...the Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors, and Thunder).

We are better off running this offense through Dwight and Gasol, at this point, and hoping Nash can spot up and knock down 40+ percent from three, and 50% or better from mid-range.

Do you think we need 25 25 25 on average from Howard Nash and Gasol in that scenario and hope the rest of the guys can pick up the slack?

We don't have hyper-athletes like Stoudemire and Marion, we don't have a Steve Nash capable of driving and kicking like he did 8 years ago, and we certainly don't have knockdown shooters. With this squad, that would be a failure of epic proportions. We aren't anywhere near as offensively gifted as those Phoenix teams either. Not even close.